CIIEEVER, GEORGE BARBELL, b. Me., 1807; a graduate of Bowdoin college and Andover theological seminary, and in 1832 ordained pastor of a Congregational church in Salem, Mass. He began at an early ago to write .for 'the press, contributing prose and verse to the current magazines and quarterlies. The Unitarian controversy attracted his attention, and he wrote a defense of the orthodox system of Cudworth. Temperance also became a leading idea, and in 1835 he published in a Salem newspaper Deacon Giles's Distillery, a bitterly satirical allegory which had a wonderful popularity_ The author was prosecuted, and sent to prison for a month. After some time passed in European travel lie took charge of the Allen street Presbyterian church in New York city, and soon afterwards gave a series of lectures on the " Pilgrim's Progress" and on " Hierarchal Despotism." After another trip across the sea he became the leading editor of the Evangelist, a weekly religious journal in New York, for Which he had been a correspondent. In 1864, he became pastor of the Church of the Puritans (Congrega
tional) in New York city, retaining that office until 1868, when the church, whose ground lease had expired and which was weakened by dissensions, disbanded. His ministry there was amid the fierce debate which preceded the war of the rebellion. Since that time he has not been in the active ministry, and has resided at Englewood, N. J. He has written many essays and books, among which are, Studies in Poetry; Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress; Wanderings of a Pilgrim; Windings of the River of the Water of _We; Voices of Nature; Powers of the World to Come; God against Slavery; and The Guilt of Slavery and Crime 67a re-holding.